December 6, 2019 — The Ink Dark Moon, by Ono no Komachi & Izumi Shikibu

Meeting Content: 

We'll be discussing The Ink Dark Moon, by Ono no Komachi & Izumi Shikibu.
We will also be creating the schedule of books for 2020. Suggestions of books may be sent to greatbookskc@gmail.com.
Please note the following links to assist in plans for preparing the 2020 schedule:
G.B. KC Categories of Books 
G.B. KC What Makes a Great Book 
G.B. KC History of Previous Books 

Meeting Location & Time:
Location: Plaza Branch Kansas City Public Library
Small Meeting Room
Date: December 6, 2019
Time: 7:00 pm
Address: 4801 Main Street
Kansas City, MO

Description of Book:

The two poets whose work is collected in The Ink Dark Moon are central figures in the only Golden Age in literary history in which women writers were the predominant geniuses: Japan’s Heian era, which lasted from 794 to 1185. Ono no Komachi (834?-?) served at the imperial court in the capital city of Heiankyo (present-day Kyoto) during the first half century of its existence. Izumi Shikibu (974?-1034?) wrote during the time of the court culture’s greatest flowering.
These two women, the first a pivotal figure who became legendary in Japanese literary history, the second Japan’s major woman poet, illuminated certain areas of human experience with a beauty, truthfulness, and compression unsurpassed in the literature of any other age.